How ‘Illinoise’ Lighting Designer Created a ‘Visual Vocabulary’ Using Sufjan Stevens’ Album on Broadway

As the old saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

S Club star Rachel Stevens is madly in love with Brendyn Hatfield, who just so happens to be her former co-star on Dancing on Ice in 2022.That same year, Rachel, 46, announced that she was divorcing her husband of 13 years, property developer, Alex Bourne, with whom she shares two daughters, Amelie, 14, and Minnie, ten. By April 2023, reports emerged that Rachel was dating Brendyn, and in November of that year, she confirmed the rumours as she went Instagram official with her new beau. Whilst there is nothing to suggest that anything romantic happened with Brendyn whilst they were training for Dancing on Ice, in a new interview, Rachel admitted that her marriage to Alex, who stars on new Netflix show, Buying London, ended after she realised she had fallen in love with Brendyn.

As studio and network executives rack their heads around what the under 25 demographic craves, multihyphenate creator and actor Alan Chikin Chow, who is behind the YouTube hit series Alan’s Universe, and his cast of Chelsea Sik, Michelle Park and Haven Everly have already figured it out.

Hunter Ingram “Is it a gift or is it not a gift that you can only play the age you are?” It’s a rhetorical question Diane Lane asks — but doesn’t pretend to have the answer to — and also a thought she embraces. “I am grateful for it,” she says. “And I’m optimistic that I’m at the right age to play some interesting people.” Interesting is one of the many things that could be said about Slim Keith.

Thania Garcia Mitski‘s “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)” was crowned record of the year at the 2024 Libera Awards on Monday night. The 13th iteration of the show, presented by A2IM (The American Association of Independent Music, Inc.), took place at Gotham Hall in New York City.

The Zurich Film Festival will hand Canadian composer and three-time Academy Award winner Howard Shore its Career Achievement Award during this year’s edition, which runs October 3-13. 

Downey’s Dream Cars on Max and Christian Cooper of National Geographic’s Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper were among the winners Saturday night the 51st Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmys.

At the Tribeca world premiere of Brats, actor-turned-director Andrew McCarthy said the Brat Pack Label, which he had “received as horrible,” turned into a “blessing.”

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com After 3 seasons, John Wilson is tired of people questioning the integrity of “How To With John Wilson.” However, when you spend 18 episodes curating the most unbelievable New York oddities and storylines while sending crews out to film “houses that look like faces” or a “bunch of bottles of urine discarded on the sidewalk” (which are actually pretty easy to find in the city), the public can’t help but wonder if the subjects of his docuseries on HBO are really… real. The master of weaving seemingly unrelated narratives and anecdotal tangents together into an (often emotional) truth about humanity sat down with Variety‘s Making a Scene to discuss why he was ready to address the disbelievers and unveil his process of creating the final season of “How To.” So, for the penultimate episode of “How To,” instead of busting out the receipts, Wilson decided to lean in and stage the fakest episode of “How To” to date.

Quinn Hemphill is making her big screen debut in the new movie Bad Boys: Ride or Die and we caught up with her to learn some fun facts.

Ever heard the saying, if something looks too good to be true, it usually is? Unfortunately, with the rise of counterfeit products, numerous platforms and sellers are attempting to trick shoppers into buying fakes by offering luxury-looking items with tempting price tags. Navigating the luxury accessory market can be a minefield. With luxury sunglasses becoming a coveted accessory and somewhat of a status symbol, this is one area to be particularly cautious of when shopping, especially if the deal appears too good to be true.

Alex Edelman, the comedian behind HBO’s Just for Us special, was studying in London when he walked into a pub in Soho.

“How To Fail” podcast. The “Happy Days” star, 78, explained how he was fired from directing the 1989 buddy cop film “Turner & Hooch,” which starred Hanks, now 67, as a detective solving the murder of his former partner and caring for his dog.“I did 11 weeks of preparation,” Winkler said about the project, which ended up being directed by Roger Spottiswoode.“I knew this dog.

Whether exploring post-apocalyptic wastelands or the far reaches of space, it’s easy to get lost in the visual language of a video game world. Transitioning that experience into a cinematic storytelling form is no easy task, but this season has seen more than a few production designers square up to the challenge.

Jon Burlingame Music for drama can take on various styles and colors, as demonstrated by three of this year’s most talked-about miniseries. Jeff Russo spent two and a half years thinking about, and composing, the score for “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s eight-part thriller about a sociopath (Andrew Scott) who finds the high life in 1960s Italy worth killing for. “Every piece of music I wrote was related to Tom Ripley,” Russo (an Emmy winner for “Fargo”) says of the Netflix series.

Selena Kuznikov “Apples Never Fall” costume designer Allyson B. Fanger said with her job on the Peacock drama is completely based in story, propelling narrative through costuming. “I love, love working with families because you need to find the common thread of the family and keep it consistent and yet find the individuality within each character,” she said.

Jon Burlingame Historical dramas often demand a specific musical approach: Music that suggests the time and place, along with reflecting the (often real-life) characters and the unique circumstances of their lives. Five of the past season’s miniseries featured outstanding scores along these lines. For producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, “Masters of the Air” marked the completion of a World War II trilogy (after “Band of Brothers,” about American soldiers in Europe, and “The Pacific,” about Marines in the Pacific theater), and composer Blake Neely worked on all three.

Hunter Ingram In Netflix’s “Ripley,” characters repeatedly call attention to the colors of the world around them. The blue hue of a painting; the purple paisley pattern of a robe. These vibrant details that might be passing remarks in any other show ring like a bell in “Ripley” simply because the show is shot entirely in black and white.

Peter A. Berry Vince Staples never did optimism, and he’s never been Mr. Sensitive.

Loose Women's Nadia Sawalha has hit out at the Chelsea Flower Show on Instagram, as she demanded to know why she hadn't been invited back. The gardening show takes place every year on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. It attracts visitors from across the globe every year, and is often visited by the Royals, including King Charles and Queen Camilla who were there on Monday, 20 May.